archaeo-, archeo-, archae-, arche-, archa-, archi-, -arch

1. Anyone who studies the knowledge, interpretations, and practices of ancient cultures regarding celestial objects or phenomena.
2. Someone who studies the ancient or traditional astronomies in their cultural context, utilising archaeological and anthropological evidence.

1. The study of the knowledge, interpretations, and practices of ancient cultures regarding celestial objects or phenomena.
2. The study of ancient or traditional astronomies in their cultural context, utilising archaeological and anthropological evidence.

Any assemblage of animal remains recovered from a single archaeological context.

Ancient geological conditions or situations.

For a long time Vesuvius and Pompeii have been an archaeogeological mystery. Bodies found on dense layers of ash indicate that the volcano had been actively pouring pumice and ash into the atmosphere for some time but also that the inhabitants had felt secure enough not to flee.

When the end came; however, it came so quickly that people were caught wherever they were. Hundreds of people in Herculaneum who had time to run and tried to find refuge in doored arched storage caverns were still exposed to such surface temperatures that it is written that a hand raised to protect one's face was burned to the bone, while the other hand, unexposed to the blast, was not.

Any systematic collection of ancient geophysical data

The worship of archaic customs, expressions, etc.

Of, relating to, or concerning archaeology.

The application of chemical theories, processes, and experimental procedures to obtaining archaeological data and to solutions of problems in archaeology.

This field includes laboratory analysis of artifacts and materials found in archaeological context.

Establishment of the temporal sequences of human cultures by the application of a variety of dating methods to cultural remains.

Any private, nonprofit organization working to save archaeological sites from destruction.

This is done primarily by purchasing threatened sites and protecting the sites until they can be turned over to responsible agencies; such as, national parks.

Constantly recurring artifacts or group of assemblages that represent or are typical of a specific ancient culture at a particular time and place.

The term describes the maximum grouping of all assemblages that represent the sum of the human activities carried out within a culture.

Material collected and recorded as significant evidence by an archaeologist.

Archaeological data falls into four classes: artifacts, ecofacts, features, and structures.

The use of geological techniques and methods to archaeological work.

It is different from geoarchaeology in that the latter is a subfield of archaeology focusing on the physical context of deposits.

Sedimentary and architectural units defined by a combination of lithological, pedological, and material cultural criteria.

Any of a variety of means used by archaeologists to find, recover, analyze, preserve, and describe the artifacts and other remains of past human activities.